You, too, have a very good point. Occasionally, I meet a TSA employee (or, even better, a supervisor) who admits that much of what they have to do is stupid. It happened to me on March 16 in Newark. That's a breath of fresh air that's much too rare, unfortunately. Most TSA employees are gung ho maniacs who insist in their peculiar thuggish way that they are "keeping us safe." With guardians like that, who needs terrorists?

Anyway, the real answer over the long term is for TSA employees to complain as loudly as we do about stupid procedures. Then management would have to listen to us -- and things would change.

Bruce